It may not have been the most dangerous emergency landing in aviation history, but it has to go down as one of most bizarre. An American Airlines flight was forced to make an unexpected descent when a female passenger refused to stop singing Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You.

Details have just emerged last week of the incident aboard the AA Flight Number 4 from Los Angeles to New York's JFK, when the flight was diverted to Kansas City because of what was described as a "very unruly passenger." It now emerges she refused to stop singing Houston's 1992 cover of the Dolly Parton song, which featured in The Bodyguard, until crew and fellow passengers could take no more.

Kansas City Airport spokesman Joe McBride said: "The woman was being disruptive and was removed from the plane for interfering with the flight crew. There was a federal air marshall on the aircraft, who subdued the woman and put her in cuffs."

On landing, the unnamed woman was taken off the plane and interviewed. When the airline refused to let her reboard the flight, she was released and left in a taxi. American Airlines told ABC News: "A federal Air Marshall on the flight restrained, cuffed and detained the passenger. The captain declared an emergency and diverted to Kansas City. Police met the flight and took the woman into custody. The plane was refuelled and continued to JFK – landing with less than an hour delay."